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Spinal cord decompression for Gaucher's disease
1M.R.C. Unit for Inherited Skeletal Disorders, Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa.
Neurosurgery
|August 1, 1987
Abstract:
We report an individual with Type I nonneuronopathic Gaucher's disease who experienced the rare complication of spinal cord compression secondary to a sclerotic vertebral fracture. He successfully underwent anterolateral spinal cord decompression and spinal fusion despite the severity of his generalized skeletal disease.